ZOOM Lecture
October 13, 2020 at 5:30 pm
Social Groups at the Basketmaker-Pueblo Transition:
Interpretations from the Procession Panel
by
Kellam Throgmorton
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In this lecture Kellam suggests that the Procession Panel on Comb Ridge (SE Utah) contains valuable information about the size of households and villages during the late Basketmaker III and early Pueblo I period. He argues that the Procession Panel depicts a community in transition, when some households began to reorganize as members of lineages and materialized this relationship by constructing large, multihousehold surface dwellings. However, not all households organized into lineage-scale groups, and these differences between these two kinds of social organization created fault lines where social inequalities could later develop.
Kellam Throgmorton is a public archaeologist whose research addresses cultural landscapes, monumentality, and political organization. He is the supervisory archaeologist at Crow Canyon Archaeological Center.
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